The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, 3rd Edition

Women And The Subversion Of The Community / Mariarosa Dalla Costa & Selma James -- A Woman's Place / Selma James. Mariarosa Dalla Costa And Selma James. Women And The Subversion Of The Community First Published As An Article, Donne E Sovversione Sociale, In Potere Femminile E Sovversione Sociale, Padova, 1972; A Woman's Place Originally Published In 1952. When this book was first published three years ago, it was already clear that the international movement of women had upset basic assumptions on which this society rested. In confronting what happens in the family and on the street, we have had to confront what happens in the factory, the office, the hospital, the school - in every institution of capitalist society. This book offered the women's movement a cohesive analysis, drawing on the descriptions by the movement of our diverse grievances. It offered a material foundation for 'sisterhood'. That material foundation was the social activity, the work, which the female personality was shaped to submit to. That work was housework A superb introduction to the prospect of opening our idea of the working class to include non-waged workers, specifically women who work in the home. A simple idea with profound revolutionary consequences. If the workers of the world are not all in the factory, and are not all men, where does that leave us? These observations are an attempt to define and analyze the "Woman Question", and to locate this question in the entire "female role" as it has been created by the capitalist division of labor. Dalla Costa, M. Women and the subversion of the community. James, S. A woman's place.